September 2012
1 post
A crib sheet for all the command-line STDOUT... →
August 2012
1 post
Updating R.app (because OSS doesn't prioritize UX)
Download and install the latest version of R.
Run it once—you’ll get warnings about missing packages.
Open ~/Library/R/
Find your previous R installation (i.e. ~/Library/R/2.13/), and copy the content of the library directory into the library directory of your new installation.
Reopen R, then run update.packages() and respond away to the prompts.
May 2012
1 post
Academic bliss
Pocket + Voice Dream = Rest for my weary eyes, appeal to my sensory preference
March 2012
11 posts
One more ifttt test
Ponies!
Trigger, you fool!
Sorry, testing an ifttt.com recipe.
Mic check
Testing, testing, 1-2-3.
Script to back up VMware Fusion files
Since Time Machine seems to do a poor (not to mention hyperactive) job of backing up VMware files on Mac OS, I took their advice and configured TM to ignore them.
That left me in the lurch, however, for the scenario where my primary hard disk takes a nose dive.
Here’s a little script I cooked up to back up the files, but only when VMWare is not running. Adding the gloriousness of...
Growl notifications from the command line:
http://growl.info/extras.php#growlnotify
:)
Showing David Tumblr
Me: So you can post a conversation.
David: What do you mean?
Me: Let me show you.
February 2012
6 posts
Craig Silverstein, Google's First Employee,... →
infoneer-pulse:
Craig Silverstein, the first employee hired by Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, will leave the search giant for Khan Academy, an online education portal based in Mountain View, Calif.
“Craig’s been with Google since the early days,” said a Google spokesperson. “He was instrumental in the development of search and made numerous contributions to Google over the...
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To reveal formulas for all cells in Excel: Ctrl+~
Mind blown.
3 tags
Fix for missing controls in Quicktime X →
“Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep...”
– The Hill Approach – Seth Godin on the secret of career success. See also this timeless advice on overcoming fear in creative development. (via)
I see the Toyota Kata in everything these days. This is “choosing the right target conditions.”
Yahoo! Pipes
I don’t find myself needing Yahoo! Pipes very often, but when I do, I can’t imagine trying to live without it. Sure hope this one sticks around.
January 2012
12 posts
http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10106/re... →
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Unborking SMB client on Mac OS X →
This is the second time this has happened to me, so I wanted to record a solution that doesn’t require a reboot that took me quite a while to find.
Here’s what happens:
So you’ve been happily connecting to SMB shares via the Finder using smb://my.server.egg1, when all of sudden, it tells you it can’t connect to the server anymore. The rude little git doesn’t even...
http://ostertoaster.wordpress.com/alfred-extensions... →
Added @jdfwarrior’s Extension Updater support for current Alfred.app extensions.
“Financial statements are like fine perfume; to be sniffed but not swallowed”
– Abraham Brillof
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Single line shell command to wipe QFX files from...
for i in `ls -1 /Users/Username/Downloads/*.QFX 2> /dev/null`; do srm -m $i; done
Script for cron on OSX. Can be adapted for any file pattern.
Could also be done with xargs.
UPDATE
The case-insensitive way to do this is as follows:
for i in `find ~/Downloads/ -maxdepth 1 -iname \*QFX\*`; do srm -m $i; done
Added bonus of no stderr to suppress since we’re using find as opposed...
“I guess giving advice is easy compared to taking it. Know your fundamentals...”
– Bjarne Stroustrup’s advice to young programmers (via jmbr
)
Good advice!
"Dead Drops is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer... →
Dear god—sounds like a security nächtmare! Interesting installment concept though. Kind of like geocaching.
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For loops in Terminal for over-engineered laziness
Task
Create 11 folders in sequence in a given directory:
Week 1 Week 2 … Week 11
Bash
Pop open Terminal.app, then issue the following command:
for i in {1..11}; do mkdir “Week $i”; done
Extra Bits
This works in reverse as well if you need it to:
for i in {11..1}; do mkdir “Week $i”; done
December 2011
5 posts
4 tags
Lion and the case of The Missing Command + Tab
I had a thoroughly vexing (and to be honest, somewhat scary) experience today where the Command + Tab keyboard shortcut used to cycle between program windows suddenly stopped working.
Thankfully, the Interwebz saved the day yet again. It was ScreenSharing borking it!
Relevant posts at the bottom of this page:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=575405
“Jon Elster has a four-phase theory of revolutions:
1: A hard-core of committed...”
– Revolutions on the Internet (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought)
WatchTime really does fly! (Since replaced with one that syncs via NTP)
